A. Howard Matz Inducted as a Fellow into the American College of Trial Lawyers

Earlier this year, Bird Marella senior counsel Judge A. Howard Matz (Ret.) was inducted as a Fellow into the American College of Trial Lawyers. The American College of Trial Lawyers is composed of fellows who represent the best of the trial bar in the United States and Canada. Founded in 1950, ...

Bird Marella Obtains Summary Judgment for AmLaw 200 Firm in Opinion Letter Dispute

Three weeks before trial was scheduled to begin in a closely-watched legal malpractice action, Bird Marella attorneys Mark Drooks and Douglas Fretty obtained summary judgment for their client, an AmLaw 200 firm, resulting in a complete defense judgment. The case arose out of a loan transaction in which the law ...

Jeremy Matz Featured in The Hollywood Reporter on 1MDB

A legal brief signed by Bird Marella principal Jeremy Matz recently was quoted in an article by The Hollywood Reporter on the 1Malaysia Development Berhad forfeiture cases. The 1MDB forefeiture cases is the largest civil forfeiture litigation that has ever been brought by the United States Department of Justice’s Kleptocracy Asset Recovery ...

Motion for Summary Judgment Granted in Corporate Governance Dispute

Bird Marella attorneys Paul S. Chan and David H. Chao successfully obtained summary judgment of all claims against their clients in a long-standing corporate governance dispute concerning multiple high-end real estate development companies (the “Development Companies.”) The clients – the minority owners and developers of the Development Companies – were sued ...

Paying Cash? The Feds Want to Know.

Paying cash for your home or property? The Government wants to know all about you. Even if you’re paying via a wire or other electronic transfer. Continuing its efforts to combat money laundering, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) this week expanded its “geographic targeting orders” that were in effect ...

Important Report from SEC Regarding Digital Assets

The Securities and Exchange Commission issued an investigative report today cautioning market participants that offers and sales of digital assets by “virtual” organizations are subject to the requirements of the federal securities laws. Such offers and sales, conducted by organizations using distributed ledger or blockchain technology, have been referred to, ...

Bird Marella Issues Notice of Filing (NY)

New York – Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert, Nessim, Drooks, Lincenberg & Rhow, P.C. today issued the following notice of filing: Today executive producers Gale Anne Hurd, David Alpert and Charles Eglee of the television series The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, and The Talking Dead filed suit in the ...

Bird Marella Issues Notice of Filing (CA)

Los Angeles – Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert, Nessim, Drooks, Lincenberg & Rhow, P.C. today issued the following notice of filing: Today the creator and four producers of the television series The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead, and The Talking Dead filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court against AMC ...